Man’s Peril by Bertrand Russell summary and annotations
SRR Govt.Arts& Science College Karimnagar Satavahana University Karimnagar- Degree I Year English Sem-2 Unit 5.- 2020-21 onwards Bertrand Russell was a British philosopher, logician, writer and a public speaker. He was the recipient of Nobel prize for literature in 1950. His noted works are Why I am not a Christian , the Principles of Mathematics , War crimes in Vietnam . The main theme of the essay is futility of war and its impact on all life on our planet.The war between nuclear weapon states leads to annihilation of human race.Russell urges the nations in this anti war essay that all should keep their issues and conflicts aside and understand the peril. Hydrogen bomb is more powerful than Atom bomb and it can destroy the entire human race in the world. Humans have not learnt lessons from their past experiences, for instance, the USA Atom bomb raid on Hiroshima and Nagasaki . If the hydrogen bomb explodes, the radioactive particles scatter...